Aequi

The Aequi were an Italic tribe who inhabited eastern Latium in central Italy. They were an ancient nation, and the Romans borrowed their rites of declaring war. The Aequi fought several wars against the Roman Republic, and they were defeated by Cincinnatus at the Battle of Mons Algidus in 458 BC. In 389 AD, the Aequi, Etruscans, and Volsci allied against Rome, which had been weakened by the Senones, but the Roman dictator Marcus Furius Camillus defeated them. The Aequi were not fully subdued until 304 BC during the Samnite Wars.